Gackt and the Crisis of Japanese Masculinity.

So, as many of you know, I'm a pretty big fan of Gackt. I love his music, which often reads like poetry, and I delight in his appearances on the various variety and music programs where he promotes his work. He's got a very weird, and very hilarious, sense of humor; he's the eternal straight-man to Japan's funny-man brand of over-the-top comedic antics.

However, he periodically does or says things that piss me off.

(Actually, I think that he and I would not like each other at all if we were ever to meet. See, I'd say something. He'd tell me that what I'd said was kind of unbecoming for a woman. And then I'd tell him to suck my cock, and that would be it.)

Anyway, he recently did something that made me seriously rethink whether or not I wanted to pay any more attention to him as an artist.

( In response to the growing crisis of masculinity in Japan... )